Gaza has become 'world's largest extermination camp' - Erdogan

'Western leaders and organisations whose duty is to ensure international security have only watched this brutality from afar for almost 300 days'

31 Jul 2024 08:40am
Children look on from the back of a truck as Palestinians flee the al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on July 28, 2024. - Photo by AFP
Children look on from the back of a truck as Palestinians flee the al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on July 28, 2024. - Photo by AFP
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ISTANBUL - The President of Turkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said that the Gaza Strip has become the "world’s largest extermination camp,” adding that Israel has committed an atrocity that will "outshine Hitler.”

"Western leaders and organisations whose duty is to ensure international security have only watched this brutality from afar for almost 300 days," Erdogan said in a speech in the capital Ankara.

"How many more children need to die to see that Israel's invasive policies endanger the entire region? Look, this is not a path that can continue,” he added.

The Turkish president also called for stopping Israel’s "brutality and barbarism immediately, before it’s too late.”

He added that Israel is the only country in the region that seeks its security through "aggression, massacres and land seizure,” acting like a "terrorist organisation.”

"The lawless Israeli state is a threat not only to Palestine and Lebanon but to humanity as a whole, to the entire world at this point," Erdogan said. - BERNAMA-ANADOLU